Man, I hope this press conference is dissected and broadcast. Bush is weak

[bigtree]

He wouldn't get a moment of attention in any crowd if he didn't hold the position he does. I don't know anyone as prevaricating and weak.

Folks have to see this in him by now. I really love the way he's ingratiated himself in these midterms, nationalizing them, making them a referendum on Iraq. He's the GOP's weakest link. I'm glad he's front and center, trying to make his ridiculous case.

[babylonsister]

1. But he's trying to reassure us. Don't you feel safer?

I have to believe people aren't so gullible as to believe he says what he means and means what he says. He is a liar who still won't admit he screwed up royally. I just wonder how many more people have to die before someone gets him off his pedastal and acts like a grown-up.

[leftchick]

2. he is astonishingly bad

even for him. Excellent news for Dems.

[youthere]

3. How many times has he..

managed to work the words "tactical change" into his answers? I wonder if Rove rewards him with a cookie for each time.

[Solly Mack]

4. It has been a rehash of the same old shit

and you're right...he's looking weak and like the liar he is

But that's seen through the eyes of someone that knows he is a liar...his true believers will fall for it.
Keep in mind that Bush only has to stall the people until after the elections and then he only has to stall the people until the next election...then he can hand the Iraq mess off to the next President.

What we have to do is prevent that from happening by keeping the pressure on...by exposing just how bad Iraq is at every turn.

We have to get Bush to act before 2008..and I mean really act. Not just hand out some false "benchmark" test that is really nothing more than a stall tactic.

The horror that is Iraq will only get worse and as it does, Americans will cry out more...and it's that momentum we have to feed...the American outrage. The bigger it grows, the less the stall tactics will work..and we can force Bush's hands. Forcing Bush's hands will keep the blame for Iraq where it belongs...but if Bush can stall long enough...fair or not...the next President in office will inherit a mess and people will be looking to that person to "do something"....and pointing to Bush as the real culprit won't change the fact that the person now in power is the person now responsible for doing something about it.

If Bush can start a redeployment (within the region) and blame the Democrats and blame the anti-war crowd and blame the Iraqis before 2008, he will try..

but if he can't, he'll stall, by any means necessary, until 2008 and then let the next President deal with it


I said the same thing back in June.

[Lexingtonian]

5. Just wait

until after the elections. There will be a short defiant phase. And then it be all pathetic all the time.